Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-25
Fnoss WASHINGTON.

,ncClAl CORRESPONDENCE vi t!lo 1lCAd. N'ALbA iDJ
WASHINGTON. D. c., Aueust %, 1887.
1t being generally understood here that
the republican postmaster OF this city. MIR.
Conser, is anxious to vacste that office, and
hat the President is only deferred from APP
pointing democratic successor by the ex.
listing rivalry between the many applicants
for the place, SOME of the we'll known bust
ness men of the city have determined to
recommend the appointment OF Mr.. j.. w.
Ross. and will go to the White House in a
day or two with that object Mr.. Ross is
not an applicant for the office. but of course
will accept it if it be offered him. He is
well known oilice lawyer here, and has been
resident of the city for many years. lie
is the sor of late member OF Congess from
Illinois, is the son-in-law OF Mr.. Ienney,
proprietor Of the National Hotel here, aud
Is an old time democrat.
A gentleman just from Southwest Virginia
says the people OF that section are 10 GOOD
shirts over their crops Of corn and hay, ana
the condition Of their cattle, all OF which
are better than for several years. lie also
SAYS the democrats there seem to be SAN
cuine Of success next November, while the
republicans are apparently listiess, and say
victory for them would only be victory
for Malone, in whose success they have no
especial interest.
Rutherford, the pension attorney arrt S ed
here with pension clerk for robbing the
government, ia carpet Dagger, whose &C.
cupation being gone in the South came here.
The present case is not the first ere in
which he has been charged with crooked
ness in business with the government. his
arrest, and that of his pal, Drummer, the
clerk, only shows the opportunities that dis
honest clerks in the departments have Tor
defrauding the government by coiiusion
with dishonest claim agents. 1t also shows
that the better policy of the administration
would have been TO have carried out the
idea Upon which it was elected, and TO have
| turned the rascals out"
Elk. Congressman Brady, of Virginia, q
republican, when here recently, said that by
deception Gen. Malone had 50 arranged
; matters at tho last republican convention Of
Virginia as 10 place the appointment OF all
the county superintendent i'll his own
hands, so that he has the sole and entire
contro! Of the party, and consequently tho
naming of al its candidates. a gentleman
from Petersburg here to-day gays ex Gov.
! Cameron agrees with Mr.. Brady in this,
and also that the ex Governor expresses
disappointment at Mahone's failure to sug-
gest plan for the settlement OF the State
debt, and besides. that he anticipates rcpub-
lean defeat il Malone shall, As he unques-
| ticnably viii, attempt 10 run tho party in
his own interest.
Representative Grain, Of Texas, has just
arrived He says that now since the pro
| hibitionis:s have been submerged there,
every thing in the political line is flat and
improbable in his State but that the dem
ocracy there is solid.
Mr.. Thompson, acting secretary Of the
Treasury, to-day appointed Samuel c. Fon-
tain and Thomas X. Dewitt internal rev.
enue gaugers in the 9Th district, Virginia.
This being tho regular cabinet meeting
| DAY, the Prcsiden: was at the White House,
and met Secretary Bayard, tho only cabinet
minister in the city, Assistant Secretaries
Thompson and Muldrcw, and Acting At
torney General jerks.
Gen. Terry, commanding the department
of The West, has sent dispatch to the War
| Department to the elect that under the law
he can not assist the State authorities oil
Colorado in their attempt to arrest certain
Indians, but That if those authorities will
abandon their efforts 10 make the arrests,
he thinks he can induce the Indians to re-
| turn to the reservation and surrender the
bucks for whose arrest State warrants have
been issued.
| It is rumored here that s. p Langley, assistant
secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, will be
promoted to the secrcteryship thereof, vice Prof
Baird. deceased, and that j. w. Powell, chief OF
the Geological Survey, will be appointed to Mr.
| Langley present place.
| Among tho recent removals from Office III the
government departments here is that of MsjoI
Ned Evans, of Alexandria. The Major had been
in Office for long time, aud though Il republican,
was not looked upon by democrats as by any
means an offensive even as an active PARTISAN.
| An Alexandria county, Virginia, republican
here to-day, says his party in that county are by
| no means at concerning tho candidate they
shall run for the Legislature lie says that while
it is known that OK postmaster Windsor, of Alex
andria, is General Mahone's favoritc. Mr.. Cor
bett, of that city, seems to have the support OF
| much of the colored clement of the party and
that Mr. Lob, of Alexandria county, says he is
determined TO the straighout republican
| candidate.
Mr. Alexander Woiderburn, secretary of The
Grange association that had an exhibition near
Falls Church last weck says the exhibition Noted
seven hundred dollars, which, under the circum-
stances, was highly satisfactory.
Professor Langston. of the cOlorcd normal school
! of Virginia, is here to day. lie is the man who
said the only thing that could divide the coored
vote would be for the President to appoint col
orcd man member Of his cabinet, and only then
if the appointment should be confirmed by the
unanimous vote of tho democrats in the Senate.
gentleman from tho lower Potomac here to-
day says the corn crop of all that section OF coun-
| try owing to the favorable rains, will be the
largest for the last twenty five years. Ho also
says that all but one of the summer resorts on the
Potomac havc had most successful season.
Among the strangers in the city to-day is OK
Congressman Lowry, of Indiana, a democrat, and
n contestant for seat in the next House. He
says that while the democrats of his State do not
approve of all the President has done, they all
support him and his administration and are in ia
vor of his denomination.
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ARREsTED.-M Mr. Allen Rutherford, q law.
yer of high standing and extensive practice